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A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
We never love heartily but once, and that is the first time we love (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Women are extreme in all points. They are better or worse than men (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A fool cannot look, nor stand, nor walk like a man of sense (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Men are the cause of women not loving one another (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
They do well, or do their duty, who with alacrity do what they ought (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker’s own (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can’t imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l’esprit de discernement, ce qu’il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.] (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.] (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A judge’s duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it. (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Don’t wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed. (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)